The annual border talks between India and Nepal will begin on Wednesday. A host of issues related to curbing trans-frontier crimes and the sharing of real-time intelligence inputs will be among the topics discussed by the Heads of the security forces of both nations.
The 9th annual coordination meeting will be held between November 12-14, cited an official statement. The Indian side will be led by SSB Director General (DG) Sanjay Singhal, while the Nepalese delegation is headed by APF Inspector General (IG) Raju Aryal.
This will be the first time that the two forces — Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and the Armed Police Force (APF) of Nepal — will have a top-level meeting. This will be the first such talks between the two countries post the 'Gen Z' driven violent protests that rocked Kathmandu, in September this year.
The deliberations are expected to lay "special emphasis" on developing effective mechanisms for joint prevention of trans-border crimes, establishing faster and more efficient channels for real-time information sharing, and reinforcing coordinated border management practices to ensure peace and security along the Indo-Nepal frontier, the SSB statement said.
The SSB guards the 1,751-km-long unfenced border with Nepal. The force that functions under the Union Home Ministry also guards the 699-km-long India-Bhutan border.
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